Kenora, Ontario - Kenora, Ontario Kenora (2001 population 15,838) is a city situated on the Lake of the Woods in northwestern Ontario, Canada. In 1836 a fur trading post was established by the Hudson's Bay Company at present-day Kenora, and the contstruction of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 1880s allowed the town to prosper. In 2000 Kenora became a city. Forestry, tourism and mining are the three largest sectors of the Kenora economy. Kenora-Rainy River's Member of Provincial Parliament, Howard Hampton, is leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. The same area's federal Member of Parliament, Robert Nault, is a Liberal..
Dryden, Ontario - Dryden, Ontario Dryden (2001 population 8,198) is a city in northwestern Ontario, Canada. Dryden, originally known as New Prospect, was founded as an agricultural community by John Dryden in 1896. It became a town in 1910 and a city in 1998. Agriculture, mining and forestry all take place in the Dryden area. Dryden is currently part of the federal and provincial electoral district, or "riding," of Kenora-Rainy River. Kenora-Rainy River's Member of Provincial Parliament, Howard Hampton, is leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. The same area's federal Member of Parliament, Robert Nault, is a Liberal..
Brampton Lake, Ontario - Brampton Lake, Ontario Brampton Lake is located near Kenora, Ontario. Latitude - Longitude : 50° 37' 00" N - 94° 37' 00" W This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Northern Ontario - Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is that part of the Canadian Northwest Territories which was transferred to the province of Ontario in 1882 and 1912 -- roughly speaking, all of Ontario northward from Georgian Bay, the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario covers 1 million square kilometres and constitutes 90 per cent of the surface area of Ontario, although it contains only 10 per cent of the population. Most of Northern Ontario is situated on the Canadian Shield, a vast rocky plateau. The climate is characterized by extremes of temperature, extremely cold in winter and hot in summer. The principal industries are mining, forestry, and hydroelectricity. For some purposes, Northern Ontario is further subdivided into Northeastern and Northwestern Ontario. When the region is divided in this way,.
List of Ontario counties - List of Ontario counties Below is a list of counties in the Canadian province of Ontario. The term "county" is only used for the geographical units in the populous southern part of the province. The sub-divisions in the thinly populated northern part of the province are called districts, and do not have the same political responsibilities as a county -- in a district, county-level services are provided directly by the provincial government. This list has not taken into account some recent reorganization of county boundaries. Algoma District, Ontario Brant County, Ontario Bruce New County, Ontario Chatham-Kent Municipality, Ontario Cochrane District, Ontario Dufferin County, Ontario Dundas County, Ontario Durham Regional Municipality, Ontario Elgin County, Ontario Essex County, Ontario Frontenac Management Unit, Ontario Greater Sudbury City, Ontario Grey County,.
List of communities in Ontario - List of communities in Ontario Communities of the Province of Ontario, Canada note: this is a list of communities, and are not necessarily organized municipalities. 10th Line Shore, Ontario Aberdeen, Grey County, Ontario Aberdeen, Prescott and Russell County, Ontario Aberfeldy, Ontario Aberfoyle, Ontario Abingdon, Ontario Abitibi Canyon, Ontario Aboyne, Ontario Acanthus, Ontario Achill, Ontario Achray, Ontario Actinolite, Ontario Acton, Ontario Actons Corners, Ontario Adamsdale, Ontario Adamsville, Ontario Adanac, Nipissing District, Ontario Adanac, Parry Sound District, Ontario Addington, Ontario Addison, Ontario Adelaide, Ontario Adelard, Ontario Admaston, Ontario Adolphustown, Ontario Advance, Ontario Agawa Bay, Ontario Agerton, Ontario Agincourt, Ontario Ahmic Harbour, Ontario Ahmic Lake, Ontario Aikensville, Ontario Ailsa Craig, Ontario Airlie, Ontario Ajax, Ontario Alban, Ontario Albert, Ontario Alberton, Ontario Albion, Ontario Albuna, Ontario Albury, Ontario Alcona, Ontario Alder, Ontario.
List of television stations in Ontario - List of television stations in Ontario The following is a list of television stations that have transmitter towers located in Ontario. VHF Channel 2: CHBX - (CTV) - Sault Ste. Marie "MCTV" Channel 2: CKPR - (CBC) affiliate - Thunder Bay "TBT" Channel 3: CITO - (CTV) - Timmins "MCTV" Channel 3: CKVR - The New (CK)VR - Barrie (north suburban Toronto) Channel 4: CBOT - (CBC) - Ottawa Channel 4: CHFD - (CTV) affiliate - Thunder Bay "TBT" (C H). F)raser D)ougall) Channel 5: CBLT - (CBC) - Toronto Channel 5: CHRO - The new (CH)RO - Ottawa (originally a BBS affiliate). Channel 5: CICI - (CTV) - Sudbury "MCTV" Channel 6: CIII - (Global) - Paris C)I)I)I), III for cable 3 in roman numerals. Channel 8: CKNX.
List of Ontario provincial highways - List of Ontario provincial highways This is a list of provincial highways in Ontario, Canada. Many of the highways were sold by the Tories, to the counties and municipalities through which the highways pass. Ontario provincial highways are also known as "King's Highways", a name opposed by some people. List of highways Primary Roads Ontario provincial highway 2 - Tyendinaga Indian Reserve at Ontario provincial highway 49 and Hastings County Highway 2 to Marysville, Ontario at Ontario provincial highway 49 and Hastings County Highway 2 Ontario provincial highway 3 - Windsor at the Ambassador Bridge over the Detroit River at the USA-Canada border to Junction Ontario Provincial Highway 77 and Essex County Highway 33 north of Leamington; and Junction Ontario Provincial Highway 4 and Elgin County Highway.
Howard Hampton - (born May 17, 1952) is the leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party (NDP) and a Member of Provincial Parliament from Kenora-Rainy River. He was born in Fort Frances, Ontario to a blue collar family. He was a good student, but also athletically gifted and politically active, getting involved with the NDP as a teenager. He took an undergraduate degree in philosophy and religion from Dartmouth College, which he attended on a hockey scholarship. He later obtained a degree in education from the University of Toronto and a law degree from the University of Ottawa. He worked as a lawyer for the Canadian Labour Congress, and for the NDP government of Allan Blakeney in Saskatchewan, before being elected to Queen's Park as an MPP in 1987. During the NDP government of.
Canadian federal election, 2004 - promise he would later break. May 12 - The Liberal Party of Canada loses another seat through by-elections, this time to the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as Gary Schellenberger replaces John Alexander Richardson in the riding of Perth--Middlesex. February 14 - Jim Harris is elected as the new leader of the Green Party of Canada. February 5 - Pierrette Venne was suspended from the caucus of the Bloc Québécois, and on February 6 she would sit as an Independent member of the Bloc. January 25 - Jack Layton is elected leader of the NDP at the party's convention in Toronto. Layton won on the first ballot, with 53.5% of the vote. 2002 December 9 - The Bloc Québécois is able to hold on to two seats in by-elections electing Roger.
Census division statistics of Canada - Region (1,023,570.49) Ontario Toronto Division (629.91) Kenora District (407,167.33) Prince Edward Island Kings County (1,684.35) Queens County (2,020.17) Quebec Champlain (169.64) Nord-du-Québec (747,719.86) Saskatchewan Division No. 10 (12,223.73) Division No. 18 (268,498.80) Yukon Territory Yukon (474,706.97) By Population CANADA Stikine Region, British Columbia (1,316) Toronto Division, Ontario (2,481,494) Alberta Division No. 4 (11,300) Division No. 6 (1,021,060) British Columbia Stikine Region (1,316) Greater Vancouver Regional District (1,986,965) Manitoba Division No. 23 (8,989) Division No. 11 (621,451) New Brunswick Queens County (11,862) Westmorland County (124,688) Newfoundland and Labrador Division No. 3 (19,370) Division No. 1 (242,875) Northwest Territories Inuvik Region (8,536) Fort Smith Region (28,824) Nova Scotia Victoria County (7,962) Halifax County (359,183) Nunavut Kitikmeot Region (4,816) Baffin Region (14,372) Ontario Manitoulin District (12,679) Toronto Division (2,481,494) Prince Edward Island Kings County.
CTV Television Network - became a regular business, where ownership was determined by how much of the country each affiliate served. This paved the way for Baton Broadcasting, original owner of the network's Toronto affiliate to take control of the network by buying up affiliate stations during the 1990s. In 1997, Baton gained effective control of the network, and now owns almost all CTV-affiliated stations. Only the stations in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Kenora, Ontario and Lloydminster, Alberta are owned by other companies. In 2001, BCE Inc acquired both CTV and the Globe and Mail newspaper, combining them into a media division known as Bell Globemedia. CTV has attracted some controversy in recent years, with significant local news cutbacks in its smaller-market stations. The four Maritime stations, known collectively as ATV, and the four Northern Ontario.
Trans-Canada Highway - km to Nanaimo; a 57 km-long ferry route connects the highway to Vancouver, whence it goes 170 km east to Hope, then turns north for 186 km toward Cache Creek, then east for 79 km through to Kamloops, then 483 km east to Banff, 101 km to Calgary, 293 km to Medicine Hat, 403 km east to Moose Jaw, 79 km to Regina, 372 km to Brandon, and 119 km east to Portage La Prairie. The joined highway goes east for 84 km through to Winnipeg and east for another 205 km to Kenora. The existing branch from Kenora continues east for 136 km to Dryden. A new branch begins at Rainy River, which goes east for 92 km to Fort Frances. The two branches converge 288 km east of Dryden.
Stanley Cup - of the Stanley Cup. The cup has been awarded every year since 1893, except for 1919 when the finals were cancelled after five games after a spanish influenza epidemic in Montreal and Seattle. The deadly disease claimed the life of one player, and incapacitated several others. The series was abandoned, and remained tied at 2-2-1. Since its first presentation, the Cup has undergone many alterations, with new levels being added and old bands being removed and preserved in the Hockey Hall of Fame (Toronto, Ontario, Canada). This is mainly due to the fact the Stanley Cup is the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of every member of the winning team engraved upon it. It stands at three feet tall and weighs almost 35 pounds. The Montreal Canadiens.
Sun Media - Today The Daily Herald Tribune (Grande Prairie) Halifax Chronicle Herald Daily Miner and News (Kenora) London Free Press Ontario Farmer Ottawa Sun The Daily Graphic (Portage La Prairie) The Times-Journal (St. Thomas) Toronto Sun Winnipeg Sun On-line Sun Publications Canoe.ca.
Province of Toronto - Toronto is the goal of many urban politicians and citizens' groups in Toronto, Ontario, who run candidates for office to promote the idea of separating Toronto's 2.4 million residents politically from Ontario and the suburban 'Greater Toronto Area', which they see as politically and economically exploiting the city. For details, see Toronto, Ontario and Culture and politics of Toronto. Prominent advocates of a Province of Toronto are Mayor David Miller, former Mayor Mel Lastman, second-runner in the 2000 mayoral election Tooker Gomberg, urban activist Jane Jacobs, mayoral candidate Paul Lewin, entrepreneur Edward Mirvish, councillor Michael Walker, former councillor and current MPP for Beaches East-York Michael Prue, and former mayor John Sewell. Prominent opponents are former Ontario Premiers Ernie Eves and Mike Harris, former MPP for Etobicoke Chris Stockwell and councillor Chris.
Lake of the Woods - Woods (French: le lac des Bois) is a lake occupying parts of the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and part of the state of Minnesota. It separates some land in Minnesota from the rest of the United States so that it can be reached from the rest of Minnesota only by crossing the lake or going through Canada. That part of Minnesota is the northernmost part of the U.S. outside Alaska and is known as the Northwest Angle. The Lake of the Woods is fed by the Rainy River, Shoal Lake, Kakagi Lake and other smaller rivers. The lake is drained by the Winnipeg River into Lake Winnipeg. Communities near the Lake of the Woods Angle Inlet, Minnesota Baudette, Minnesota Keewatin, Ontario Kenora, Ontario Middlebro, Manitoba Minaki, Ontario Rainy River, Ontario.
List of ships of the Canadian Navy - (corvette) HMCS Vancouver (corvette) HMCS Victoriaville (corvette) HMCS Ville de Quebec (corvette) HMCS Wetaskiwin (corvette) HMCS Weyburn (corvette) HMCS West York (corvette) HMCS Whitby (corvette) HMCS Windflower (corvette) HMCS Woodstock (corvette) HMCS Ontario (cruiser) HMCS Prince David (cruiser) HMCS Prince Henry (cruiser) HMCS Price Robert (cruiser) HMCS Uganda (cruiser) HMCS Algonquin (destroyer) HMCS Annapolis (destroyer) HMCS Assiniboine (destroyer) HMCS Athabaskan (destroyer) HMCS Boxer (destroyer) HMCS Buxton (destroyer) HMCS Chaudière (destroyer) HMCS Columbia (destroyer) HMCS Fraser (destroyer) HMCS Gatineau (destroyer) HMCS Haida (destroyer) HMCS Hamilton (destroyer) HMCS Havoc (destroyer) HMCS Hornet (destroyer) HMCS Huron (destroyer) HMCS Iroquois (destroyer) HMCS Kootenay (destroyer) HMCS Margaree (destroyer) HMCS Mohawk (destroyer) HMCS Niagara (destroyer) HMCS Ottawa II (destroyer) HMCS Qu'appelle (destroyer) HMCS Restigouche (destroyer) HMCS St. Clair (destroyer) HMCS St. Croix (destroyer) HMCS St. Francis (destroyer).
Kapuskasing, Ontario - Kapuskasing, Ontario Kapuskasing (2001 population 9,238) is a town on the Kapuskasing River in the Cochrane District of northern Ontario, Canada. It is the largest community located directly along Highway 11 between Thunder Bay and Temiskaming Shores. The town was founded in the early 20th century when the forerunner of the Canadian National Railway was built through the area. During World War I it was the site of an internment camp that held over 1,200 prisoners. After the war, a paper mill was established. The mill, now owned by Tembec, is still the town's lifeblood. Kapuskasing's locally-originated media include English-language commercial radio station CKAP-FM, branded Moose FM; French-language community radio station CKGN-FM; and the English-language Kapuskasing Northern Times and bilingual Le/The Weekender community newspapers..
Kawartha Lakes, Ontario - Kawartha Lakes, Ontario Kawartha Lakes, city in east-central Ontario, and makes up the former County of Victoria. The main centres are Omemee, Lindsay, Oakwood, Janetville, Bethany, Fenelon Falls, Woodville, and Bobcaygeon The citizens of Kawartha Lakes voted to de-amalgamate in November, 2003 into the former towns, villages, and townships of the former County of Victoria, but it might be years before de-amalgamation is complete, if it happens at all. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Demographics 2 Highways 3 Protected Areas 4 Attractions 5 Census Division (counties, etc.) Rankings 6 Surrounding Counties Demographics According to the 2001 Statistics Canada Census: Population: 69,179 % Change (1996-2001): 1.8 Dwellings: 34,637 Area (sq. km.): 3,059.22 Density (persons per sq. km.): 22.6 Highways Highways that run through Kawartha Lakes are as follows: King's.
